The Eighteenth Rideal Conference on Chemisorption and Catalysis at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berlin 25–27 March 2015

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The Rideal Conferences had their origin in 1962 when Professor Charles Kemball organized a symposium at Queen’s University in Belfast during the week before Easter to honor his former Cambridge PhD supervisor Sir Eric Rideal. At that time Rideal was at Imperial College where he had been since retiring from the Chair of Physical Chemistry at King’s College London in 1955. The title of the symposium was “Chemisorption and Catalysis” and it was very successful with some eighty invited eminent delegates entering into extended friendly discussion and debate about the latest research results in areas largely pioneered by Rideal. A second conference along the same lines was organized 3 years later by Professor Frank Stone at the University of Bristol, and 3 years after that another of Rideal’s former Cambridge PhD students, Professor Dan Eley, organized a similar conference at the University of Nottingham and it was there the name “Rideal Conference” was adopted. Further Rideal Conferences have been held in the week before Easter whenever possible every 3 years. …